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Who developed a mechanical device in the 17th century that could add subtract multiple divided and find sure roots.

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Napiler

Babbage

Pascal

Leibniz

What is the name of the computer terminal which gives paper printout.

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Display screen

Soft copy terminal

Hard copy terminal

Plotter

Before a disk drive can access any sector record a computer program has to provide the record's disk address What information does this address specify.

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Track number

Sector number

All of above

Which of the following is not a programming lanbguage.

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Basic

FORTRAN

LASER

PASCAL

IMB launched its first personal computer called IBM -PC in 1981 it had chips from intel. disk drives from Tandon operating system from Microsoft the printer from Epson and the application software from everywhere Can you name the country which contributed the video display.

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India

China

Taiwan

Germany

The Width of a processors data path is measured in bits which of the following are common data paths.

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8 bits

12 bits

16 bits

32 bits

When were the first mini computer built.

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1965

1962

1972

1966

Floppy disks which are made from flexible plastic material are also called.

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Hard disks

High density disks

Diskettes

Templates

Which of the following is a way to access secondary memory.

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Random access memory

Action method

Transfer method

Density method

A computer which CPU speed around 100 million instruction per second and with the word length of around 64 bits is known as.

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Super computer

Mini computer

Macro computer

Micro computer

To produce high quality graphics in color you would want to use a

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RGB monitor

Plotter

Ink jet pointer

Laser printer

What is the name of the display feature that highlights are of the screen which requires operator attention.

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Pixel

Reverse video

Touch screen

Cursor

Which of the following professions has not been affected by personal computer.

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Medical

Clerical and law

Accounting

None of above

An approach that permits the computer to work on several program instead of one is.

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On line thesaurus

Multiprogramming

Over lapped processing

Outline processor

When did IBM introduce the 20286 based PC/AT.

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1982

1984

1985

1989

Which of the following magazines covers only the IBM PC and its compatibles.

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Byte

PC magazine

Personal computing

Interface age

Floppy disk which are made from flexible plastic material are also called.

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Hard disks

High density disks

Diskettes

Templates

Super computer was invested by

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J.H. Van Tassel

J.C. Perrier

W.L Judson

A.J garnering.

The time period during which a computer is main functioning or not operating correctly due to machine failures is referred as.

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Downtime

Up time

Run time

None

The first machine to successfully perform a long series of arithmetic and locial operations was.

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ENIAC

Mark -1

Analytic Engine

UNIVAC -1

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